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Andrew Hull

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Giles Hannah

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Hi All,We are two thirds of the good, the bad and the tiny. Last year we raised £6945 for Mercy Corp and Maiti Nepal by driving a tuktuk from Nepal to Kerala on the rickshaw run. <img src="images/gallery09/50955/130x130.jpeg" /> <img src="images/gallery09/50961/130x130.jpeg" /> <img src="images/gallery09/50960/130x130.jpeg" />This year Douglas ( the tiny) has had to retire due to becoming too old, too soon. Giles and Andrew fortunately blessed with youth, charm and good looks do not suffer from this problem, and are attempting something even more stupid this year. This year there will be no impromptu beach breaks to escape to.  We are raising money for 2 equally worthy charities this year. The justgiving.com links are on the left hand side of this page1. Practical Action: have been working closely with some of the world’s poorest people using simple technology to fight poverty and transform lives for the better.2. Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research:  is the only UK charity solely dedicated to research into blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Their life-saving research is focused on finding causes, improving diagnosis and treatments, and running groundbreaking clinical trials for all blood cancer patients. <h4 style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #2a42c6; line-height: 1.3em; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px">We will be attempting to drive from Ascuncion (Paraguay) to Cuzco (Peru) via Bolivia, in this vehicle.</h4>  <img src="images/gallery09/50953/130x130.jpeg" />Not sure quite what we are in for, but this is what the website states:Take the smallest and least practical vehicle available in an entire continent, squeeze up to three uncomfortable Adventurists and throw it all at some of the most ridiculous and least hospitable terrain on our good earth. From the driest desert in the world, to the most dangerous road in the world, to the biggest rainforest in the world the Mototaxi Junket is rarefied adventure in it's finest form - completely stupid. <img src="images/gallery09/50954/130x130.jpeg" /> There's no guarantee of making it to the finish, and of course there is no back-up, just how you want it - otherwise it wouldn't be an adventure. The finish party is two weeks after the start but how long it takes you depends on how much get lost and stuck in the middle of nowhere.The machine of choice is the humble <a href="http://mototaxijunket.theadventurists.com/index.php?page=thevehicles">Mototaxi</a>. Invented in Peru and not really perfected anywhere. Built from a motorbike and a few bits of pipe these hardy little ferrets are designed for pootling around the back streets of cities. Which makes them perfect for dirt tracks, waist high mud, salt flats, the Andes and sand dunes.There's no such thing as a route on the Junket. Just a place to start and a place to arrive covered in mud, oil and missing the odd body part which you'll find in the <a href="http://mototaxijunket.theadventurists.com/index.php?page=theunroute">un-route department</a> (not the missing body part, just the start and finish).

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